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BISHOP RYDER'S SECOND CHARGE TO THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF LICHFIELD AND COVENTRY.
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THE MONTHLY REPOSITORY AHD REVIEW . NEW SERIES , No . XXVI .
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FEBRUARY , 1829 .
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( Concluded from p . 14 . ) On the remaining pages of this Charge we shall , with the higher pleasure , make our observations , in proportion as we less frequently differ from the sentiments of the Right Reverend Author .
He beholds with a degree of jealousy " the late efforts to extend and elevate the intellectual acquirements of the inferior classes of society : " for of these labours he says , that , " however well intended and useful in many points of view , " they " are , it must be acknowledged , liable to abuse , " in respect of their influence on religious opinion , " and demand therefore attentive and somewhat distrustful vigilance . " *
Now we cordially admit that religious principle , and a religious spirit , ought , if possible , always to accompany , and direct , and consecrate , both the possession and the communication of general knowledge . We are aware that knowledge , though it is power , may sometimes be mischievous power . Nearly every thine ; is * ' liable to abuse : " and we perceive with
satisfaction , but with no astonishment , that Dr . R y der deals not in znvective 9 f but in rnild and friendly suggestions . In his " distrust "—in the motive and the object of it—we do not participate : we believe that whatever deserves tlie title of knowledqe , must be ultimately favourable to Truth and Goodness . But we are gratified by the benevolence of the Prelate ' s temper , and by the moderation of his language .
• P . 14 . f In ( lie Morning Chronicle of Oct . 14 , 1828 , the following statement occurs : " It was but the other day that a Bishop inveighed bitterly against Mechanics * Institutes . " We imagine that the allusion is to Dr . R . : for soon after the delivery , but previously to the publication , of his Second Charge , some of the public journals proclaimed that he had attacked Mechanics 9 Institutes , expressly , and by name . As it cannot be supposed that there is any material variation between what his Lordship uttered aud what he has printed , we must bow be sensible of the misinformation of tlie editor of the Morning Chronicle .
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VOL . III . Q
Bishop Ryder's Second Charge To The Clergy Of The Diocese Of Lichfield And Coventry.
BISHOP RYDER ' S SECOND CHARGE TO THE CLERGY OF THE DIOCESE OF LICHFIELD AND COVENTRY .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Feb. 2, 1829, page unpag, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2569/page/1/
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